Dr. Halena Kapuni-Reynolds
Dr. Halena Kapuni-Reynolds (Kanaka ʻŌiwi/Native Hawaiian) was born and raised on the island of Hawaiʻi in the rainforest of ʻŌlaʻa and the Hawaiian Home Land community of Keaukaha. He is the Associate Curator of Native Hawaiian History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. In his previous role, he worked as the graduate assistant for the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he helped to organize an array of programs centered on museum decolonization and Indigenization, as well as an NEH-funded professional development program for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander museum professionals called Weaving a Net(work) of Care.
